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55 free events take place on Saturday, October 2 in New York City.
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55 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Saturday, October 2, 2010

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Workshop | Kayaking on the Hudson


Enjoy breathtaking views of NYC while kayaking on the Hudson River. Completely free. Must know how to swim. A changing room and shower and hose to rinse off with are available. They have a limited number of locks available. Please bring your own lock.
   
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9:00 am
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Conference | Music and Indigeneity in the Americas


9 a.m. – 12 p.m. MODES OF MEDIATION AND COLLABORATION Indigenism, Performance and Politics in Nicaragua: 1 – 4 p.m. MEDIA AND PLACE Moderator: J. Kehaulani Kauanui , Associate Professor of American Studies and Anthropology, Wesleyan University; Producer and Host of "Indigenous Politics" Radio, WESU (Kanaka Maoli) 4 – 5 p.m. Closing discussion
   
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9:00 am
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Workshop | Sunshine Yoga


With Zelina Blagden, who focuses on the internal wisdom that a yoga practice brings whether it is through a restorative or vinyasa style of class.
   
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9:00 am
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City Walk | Brooklyn Bridge/DUMBO/Brooklyn Heights Walk


3 miles, slow and steady pace. Depart at 10 a.m., walk across the Brooklyn Bridge and use the bathrooms at Starbucks in DUMBO. Then tour Empire Ferry State Park, Brooklyn Bridge Park, and the Chocolate Factory, for some delicious chocolate treats. Next, on to Brooklyn Heights for a leader-narrated tour of the area including a walk on the Promenade. If time permits, conclude with a walk down Atlantic Avenue and a visit to some extraordinary Middle Eastern delicacy shops. The end of the walk will be only two blocks from Court Street in downtown Brooklyn where you may find an array of subway lines. Bring a snack or lunch. Finish around 1:30- 2 p.m.
   
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9:45 am
$3

Workshop | Drawing in the Park


Sketch and paint the Hudson River and neighboring parks with a professional artist/educator. Materials provided or bring your own.
   
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10:00 am
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Other | Kayaking on the Hudson


Join 20-minute instructional paddles, then explore the Hudson River firsthand. Please wear a bathing suit or shorts and a t-shirt, and know how to swim. Weather permitting. Daily Weather Status: 1-646-613-0740.
   
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10:00 am
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City Walk | Snyder Public Schools in Lower Manhattan Walk


Walking from Chinatown north through the Lower East Side and the East Village to 23rd Street, look at Progressive- and City-Beautiful-Era public schools designed by architect Charles B. J. Snyder – from his earliest extant building of 1893 to one of his latest from 1925. 6-8 miles, city streets, good pace. Bring lunch and water.
   
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10:00 am
$3

Tour | “The Castle and its Kingdom”


Take a walk around the lands dominated by the Castle, situated high on Vista Rock. Visit the tiny 55-acre realm on an eclectic tour of history and nature. Tour is approximately one hour.
   
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10:00 am
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Dance Performance | Collaborative Art: iLAND presents SIP (Sustained Immersive Process)/watershed


The interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art Nature and Dance presents this investigation into the NYC watershed viewed as a meta-choreography of the historical, geological, and cultural layers of the interaction of built and natural phenomena of water in the region. Choreographer and iLAND Artistic Director Jennifer Monson, Sound Artist Chris Cogburn, Costume Designer Katrin Schnabl, Architect Kate Cahill, and Choreographer/Dancer Maggie Bennett will create a process that interweaves their forms through listening, observing, moving in and with water affecting the NYC watershed – from along the edges of NYC’s shoreline to the headwaters of the Hudson in the upper reaches of the Adirondacks. The SIP collaborators invite the public into their process through a dynamic structure that frames and reflects the constantly shifting nature of the watershed. The event builds a system of listening, observing, and moving that creates a porous and fluid experience - the intimacy of which is designed to sustain an immersive experience for both the public and the artists. The performance will last 30 minutes and is limited to eight people.
   
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10:30 am
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Fair | Block Party


This event will feature food, live music, entertainment, safety awareness, health screenings and educational events -- something for family members of all ages! There will be food, games, face-painting and a chance to meet NYPD and FDNY members. Rain Date: Sunday, October 3rd.
   
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11:00 am
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Tour | Cathedral Tour


Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present.
   
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11:00 am
$6

Park Walk | Garden Tour


The tour highlights the history, design, and unique plantings of the 70-year-old Garden, led by staff. (Approximately 75 mins.) Features blooming perennial and annual borders (over 250 varieties) as well as ornamental trees and shrubs.
   
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11:00 am
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Other | Play Petanque in the Park


Learn to play petanque, the popular European game anchored in precision, patience, and camaraderie, from members of La Boule New Yorkaise, NYC's championship club.
   
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11:00 am
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Other | Play Ping Pong


Hone your ping pong skills at one of two state-of-the-art tables. Paddles and balls are provided free of charge. Sign up with an attendant in the park to reserve a time slot.
   
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11:00 am
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Fair | Street Fair


   
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11:00 am
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Fair | Street Fair


   
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11:00 am
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Dance Performance | Collaborative Art: iLAND presents SIP (Sustained Immersive Process)/watershed


The interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art Nature and Dance presents this investigation into the NYC watershed viewed as a meta-choreography of the historical, geological, and cultural layers of the interaction of built and natural phenomena of water in the region. Choreographer and iLAND Artistic Director Jennifer Monson, Sound Artist Chris Cogburn, Costume Designer Katrin Schnabl, Architect Kate Cahill, and Choreographer/Dancer Maggie Bennett will create a process that interweaves their forms through listening, observing, moving in and with water affecting the NYC watershed – from along the edges of NYC’s shoreline to the headwaters of the Hudson in the upper reaches of the Adirondacks. The SIP collaborators invite the public into their process through a dynamic structure that frames and reflects the constantly shifting nature of the watershed. The event builds a system of listening, observing, and moving that creates a porous and fluid experience - the intimacy of which is designed to sustain an immersive experience for both the public and the artists. The performance will last 30 minutes and is limited to eight people.
   
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11:30 am
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Tour | Foraging in the Park Tour


Naturalist/author "Wildman" Steve Brill will lead one of his world-famous foraging tours of the Park. Thanks to its varied habitats and combination of native and introduced species, the Park is a great place for edible and medicinal wild plants and mushrooms. And in the fall, herbs, greens, nuts, fruits, roots, and mushrooms all come into season simultaneously. Burdock, an expensive detoxifying herb sold in health food stores, abounds in uncultivated areas throughout the park.
   
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11:45 am
$15 suggested donation...

Concert | Resident Music Festival


Including Women of the Calabash, Classical: Richard Hundley (piano/voice); David Del Tredici (piano); Jeffrey Middleton and Susan Hyman Schweisky (piano, flute); Salvador Tomas (piano, voice); Jazz: Barry Temkin and the Raytones, Jazz/World Fusion: Zone with Michael Moss, Mel Nusbaum, Robert Edwards, Lou Selmi, Jim O’Donnell’s Organ Trio, Jess Osuna (piano); Julian Maile, also Ralph Lee Puppet Parade.
   
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12:00 pm
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Fair | Street Fair


   
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12:00 pm
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Park Walk | West Side Stories Tour


Walk through a scenic area on the western edge of the Park, much of which is off the beaten track for most visitors. See rolling meadows, lake views, bridges of different styles, and a garden with flowers and plants mentioned by Shakespeare.
   
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12:00 pm
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Park Walk | Tour of the Exhibit Statuesque


Designed to provide visitors with an overview of the exhibition's themes as well details about each artist and the works included, the tour will visit each of the ten figurative sculptures on view and last approximately 30 minutes. Statuesque brings together a dynamic group of six international artists--Pawel Althamer, Huma Bhabha, Aaron Curry, Thomas Houseago, Matthew Monahan, and Rebecca Warren--whose work reinvigorates the tradition of figurative sculpture. This exhibition marks the New York debut of each work included and is also the first time this international group of artists has been shown together.
   
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12:30 pm
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Tour | Cathedral Tour


Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present.
   
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1:00 pm
$6

Screening | Daily Screenings: Corn Is Life


A showing of the short films on the Native American food that changed the world: The Gift, Na Florentina, La Cumbia del Mole and Corn Is Who We Are. Starts at 1pm and 3pm.
   
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1:00 pm
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Park Walk | Walk NYC


A walking program that encourages New Yorkers of all ages to get fit while enjoying the outdoors. With funding provided by Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield, Parks hired trained walking instructors who will keep participants active, exercising and having fun.
   
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1:00 pm
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Tour | History of Governors Island Walking Tour


Join a National Park Ranger for this 45- to 60-minute walking tour experience and discover how the role of Governors Island evolved to meet the changing needs of New York City and the nation.
   
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1:25 pm
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Talk | A Practical Guide to Buying a Co-op, Condo, or House


Carmen Lee Shue, owner of Lee Shue Realty, Inc., will present her highly innovative and successful lecture. This program is meant to educate and empower first time buyers of real estate.
   
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2:00 pm
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Film | Boris Karloff Double Feature: Before I Hang / The Boogie Man Will Get You


In Before I Hang, a physician on death row for a mercy killing is allowed to experiment on a serum using a criminal's blood, but instead secretly tests it on himself. He gets a pardon, but finds out he's become a Jekyll-&-Hyde. Directed by Nick Grinde. In The Boogie Man Will Get You (pictured), a young divorcee tries to convert a historic house into a hotel despite its oddball inhabitants and dead bodies in the cellar. Directed by Lew Landers. Total running time: 128 min.
   
2:00 pm
Free

Tour | Chinatown/Little Italy -“Ethnic Contrasts” Tour


New York's replica of Hong Kong and Naples in miniature. Highlights: Old Police Headquarters, 18th-century Jewish Sephardic Cemetery, Edward Mooney House, learn the origins of the street names.
   
2:00 pm
$15, but only...

Other | Harvest Fest '10


Close out the season with a bang: food, families, fun, and fabulous music by Trio Geo and Side Car a Go Go. Bring a potluck dish and enjoy the cooking of others. Rain date: Oct. 3.
   
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2:00 pm
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Theater | Octoberfest Theater Festival: Bleecker Street Comics by Leslie Caputo


A theater festival of 53 plays in 26 days.
   
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2:00 pm
$10 suggested donation...

Theater | Octoberfest Theater Festival: R by Elizabeth Logun


A theater festival of 53 plays in 26 days.
   
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2:00 pm
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Discussion | Platform 2010: Euros and Dollars -- Is There a Market in Dance?


A public talk hosted by The Adventure (a choreographic research lab of 16 artists led by Platform curator Trajal Harrell), this forum is an attempt to address topics in contemporary dance which often get superficial treatment or go undiscussed.
   
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2:00 pm
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Tour | Union Square: Crossroads of New York


The tour explores the social and political history of the Union Square neighborhood through discussions of the people, history, architecture, and forces that have shaped this community. You’ll hear how Union Square got its name, see where the legendary Tiffany & Co. once stood, and learn how to read the clock (yes, it’s a clock!) on “The Metronome” sculpture and so much more!
   
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2:00 pm
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Park Walk | West Side Stories Tour


Walk through a scenic area on the western edge of the Park, much of which is off the beaten track for most visitors. See rolling meadows, lake views, bridges of different styles, and a garden with flowers and plants mentioned by Shakespeare.
   
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2:00 pm
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Tour | “Manhattan Adirondacks”


Olmsted and Vaux designed the North Woods to replicate the forests of the Adirondack Mountains with its crystal streams, calming cascades, and rustic bridges. This scenic and meditative walk is right in New York City's backyard. Tour will be approximately one hour.
   
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2:00 pm
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Film | Gregory LaCava's Silent Comedy Feel My Pulse (1928): Asylum from Prohibition


With William Powell and Bebe Daniels. A rich but hypochondriacal heiress inherits a sanitarium. What she doesn't know is that it is a front for bootleggers, and a hideout for criminals on the run from the law. 63 min. With live piano accompaniment by Ben Model.
   
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2:30 pm
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Staged Reading | A Reading of Mallery Avidon's Play Mary-Kate Olsen Is in Love


Characters Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are used to personify our youth culture's dependence on media to determine self worth and sense of identity. Over the course of the play, struggles in the "real lives" of these two media icons and the people they effect create heartbreaking relationships and deeper friendships than anyone thought possible. Through real personal experience they are freed from the pressures of what is expected and allowed to follow what's in their hearts. And, of course, they destroy a few lives and marriages along the way.
   
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3:00 pm
$5

Opening Reception | An Exhibition of Kaburaki Wine Glasses


Kaburaki Wine Glasses beautifully marry Japanese traditional aesthetics with solid German craftsmanship, resulting in stemware that is unsurpassed in originality. Kaburaki of Japan and Spiegelau of Germany have collaborated to make Kaburaki original wine glasses, seamlessly fusing the artistic tastes of two very different cultures. The series of unique glasses were created by melding the European wine arts and culture with the multicolored, over glaze painting of Kutani technique. The glass bowl is by Spiegelau, the world famous German crystal glass factory, and the stem by Kutani porcelain, which possesses rich historical importance dating back 370 years of artisanal craft in Kanazawa, Japan.
   
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3:00 pm
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Workshop | Investment Choices: What Is Right for Me?


This class is designed to help investors focus on their goals, to recognize the potential risks and rewards of different investments, to teach some basic information about different asset types, and to help match individual goals to investment choices. Also, review useful information sources.
   
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3:00 pm
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Tour | History of Governors Island Walking Tour


Join a National Park Ranger for this 45- to 60-minute walking tour experience and discover how the role of Governors Island evolved to meet the changing needs of New York City and the nation.
   
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3:25 pm
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Dance Performance | Collaborative Art: iLAND presents SIP (Sustained Immersive Process)/watershed


The interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art Nature and Dance presents this investigation into the NYC watershed viewed as a meta-choreography of the historical, geological, and cultural layers of the interaction of built and natural phenomena of water in the region. Choreographer and iLAND Artistic Director Jennifer Monson, Sound Artist Chris Cogburn, Costume Designer Katrin Schnabl, Architect Kate Cahill, and Choreographer/Dancer Maggie Bennett will create a process that interweaves their forms through listening, observing, moving in and with water affecting the NYC watershed – from along the edges of NYC’s shoreline to the headwaters of the Hudson in the upper reaches of the Adirondacks. The SIP collaborators invite the public into their process through a dynamic structure that frames and reflects the constantly shifting nature of the watershed. The event builds a system of listening, observing, and moving that creates a porous and fluid experience - the intimacy of which is designed to sustain an immersive experience for both the public and the artists. The performance will last 30 minutes and is limited to eight people.
   
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4:00 pm
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Theater | Octoberfest Theater Festival: You Only Shoot the Ones You Love by Jeffrey Sweet


A theater festival of 53 plays in 26 days.
   
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4:00 pm
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Concert | Saturday Afternoon Organ Meditation


The program features the great repertoire of the Organ on the 101 rank Pipe Organ built by Herman Schlicker and the 5 stop chamber organ built by Taylor & Boody Organ Builders.
   
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4:00 pm
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Theater | Octoberfest Theater Festival: Carole Real's Very Funny 2010 Play by Carole Real


A theater festival of 53 plays in 26 days.
   
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4:30 pm
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Dance Performance | Collaborative Art: iLAND presents SIP (Sustained Immersive Process)/watershed


The interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art Nature and Dance presents this investigation into the NYC watershed viewed as a meta-choreography of the historical, geological, and cultural layers of the interaction of built and natural phenomena of water in the region. Choreographer and iLAND Artistic Director Jennifer Monson, Sound Artist Chris Cogburn, Costume Designer Katrin Schnabl, Architect Kate Cahill, and Choreographer/Dancer Maggie Bennett will create a process that interweaves their forms through listening, observing, moving in and with water affecting the NYC watershed – from along the edges of NYC’s shoreline to the headwaters of the Hudson in the upper reaches of the Adirondacks. The SIP collaborators invite the public into their process through a dynamic structure that frames and reflects the constantly shifting nature of the watershed. The event builds a system of listening, observing, and moving that creates a porous and fluid experience - the intimacy of which is designed to sustain an immersive experience for both the public and the artists. The performance will last 30 minutes and is limited to eight people.
   
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5:00 pm
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Jazz | Five jazz bands celebrate Demetrius Oliver's Jupiter


In collaboration with artist Demetrius Oliver, five bands will perform as part of Oliver’s newest work, Jupiter. Groups will play in different locations spanning the length of the park, and will interpret the composition "Jupiter" by John Coltrane. These live musical performances and stargazing will accompany Oliver’s visual piece to expand the spatial dimension.
   
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6:00 pm
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Theater | Octoberfest Theater Festival: That Night in Hialeah by Eduardo Machado


A theater festival of 53 plays in 26 days.
   
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6:00 pm
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Theater | Octoberfest Theater Festival: The Second Tosca by Tom Rowan


A theater festival of 53 plays in 26 days.
   
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6:00 pm
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Concert | Resident Music Festival


Including Women of the Calabash, Classical: Richard Hundley (piano/voice); David Del Tredici (piano); Jeffrey Middleton and Susan Hyman Schweisky (piano, flute); Salvador Tomas (piano, voice); Jazz: Barry Temkin and the Raytones, Jazz/World Fusion: Zone with Michael Moss, Mel Nusbaum, Robert Edwards, Lou Selmi, Jim O’Donnell’s Organ Trio, Jess Osuna (piano); Julian Maile, also Ralph Lee Puppet Parade.
   
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7:00 pm
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Staged Reading | A Reading of Mallery Avidon's Play Mary-Kate Olsen Is in Love


Characters Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are used to personify our youth culture's dependence on media to determine self worth and sense of identity. Over the course of the play, struggles in the "real lives" of these two media icons and the people they effect create heartbreaking relationships and deeper friendships than anyone thought possible. Through real personal experience they are freed from the pressures of what is expected and allowed to follow what's in their hearts. And, of course, they destroy a few lives and marriages along the way.
   
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7:30 pm
$5

Concert | The Other Mendelssohn: Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel


The third of a 3-concert series featuring the major works of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, a composer of the 19th-century who was often overshadowed by her brother, Felix Mendelssohn. Recognized in The New York Times as “the dean of Mendelssohn scholars in the United States,” R. Larry Todd curates the series. Hensel wrote more than 450 works, most of which were not discovered until late in the 20th-century. This will be the first time in NYC all of her major works will be performed. The series concludes with Das Jahr, Zwölf Charakterstücke für Fortepiano. Das Jahr (“The Year”) was composed by Hensel in 1841 and is a collection of 12 pieces – each piece depicting one month. Hensel’s husband, painter Wilhelm Hensel, illustrated the manuscript, and the illustrations will be projected during the performance.
   
8:30 pm
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Theater | Octoberfest Theater Festival: Dayglo by Randee Smith


A theater festival of 53 plays in 26 days.
   
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9:00 pm
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Theater | Octoberfest Theater Festival: Sex in the Kitchen by Judy Tate


A theater festival of 53 plays in 26 days.
   
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9:00 pm
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Jazz | World Music: Malika Zarra


Self-described as a “multi-cultural shape-shifter,” Moroccan jazz singer, composer, and producer Malika Zarra finds common ground in such uncommon places as Arabic working-class blues, religious trance music, and American jazz. As it turns out, all three employ improvisation, which you’re as likely to hear whizzing around the guitar and bass as you are the oud, dumbek, and bender.
   
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